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Academic research on subaltern communities often functions on the basis of
\nextractive knowledge: The researcher, an agent, seeks out knowledge from
\nthe bodies of his research and brings that knowledge back to the academy.
\nThrough this extraction and its subsequent interpretation, Western scholars
\nappropriate non-Western epistemologies and control how they are (re)presented.
\nIt is the extraction, coupled with the act of moving the knowledge from a
\nminoritized place to a colonial one, that marks the violence and the epistemic
\ninjustice of coloniality. Engaging with theories from scholars including Walter
\nMignolo and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, this paper explores the movement
\n(translation) of knowledge, the linguistic translation of non-Western works
\ninto Western languages, and linguistic translation as itself a form of movement
\nof knowledge. The aforementioned are examples of what I term epistemic
\ntranslations, which I maintain are inherently unjust. I then examine the ethics
\nof Mariana Mora’s collaborative research process with Zapatista communities
\nto offer an example of an endeavor that, instead of an epistemic translation,
\nwas a just, decolonial epistemic encounter. In so doing, I consider how epistemic
\ntranslations can be decolonized by contemplating the ways in which academic
\nresearchers can establish reciprocity so that non-Western peoples are
\nnot the objects from which to extract knowledge, but subjects with agency in
\na two-way process of sharing and creating knowledge. I argue that it is only
\nthrough praxes of co-laboring and reciprocity that a postcolonial epistemic
\njustice in research and academia can be obtained.